Drill-cabinet



F. M. PEARMA'N.

I DRILL CABINET.

' APPHCKTION FILED APR. 4, I919." 1,3 Patented Aug. 3, 1920.

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DRILL CABINET.

PPLlCATlON FILED APR. 4, 1919.

Patented Aug. 3, 1920.

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UNITED, STATES P ATENT OFFICE.

FRANK M. PEARMAN, OF \VATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA.

Application filed April 4, 1919.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK M. PEARMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at /Vatertown, in the county of Codington and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drill- Cabinets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a cabinet for holding drills and has provided a convenient and time saving cabinet to hold each drill in a certain place that is easily and instantly locatable.

A large portion of the time of the drill operator in the ordinary shop and factory that should be employed in drilling holes, is usually occupied in looking for the required size of drill.

Drill holders are not new, but none have been employed heretofore that has removed or obviated this waste of time.

In drilling holes in metal, wood and the various materials, many sizes of drills are employed and the changes from one size to another are frequent.

It is essential that a form of drill holder be provided that will be so convenient and pleasing to the operator that he will return every drill to the holder immediately on ceasing its use and not allow the unused drills to accumulate on the machine, bench or floor, so that the hand can instantly be placed on the required drill.

The present invention has provided an improved drill cabinet that holds the drills in so convenient arrangement that the drill operator will when ceasing the use of a drill, return it to its designated place in the cabinet.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combinations and arrangements on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Specification of Letters Patent.

DRILL-CABINET.

Patented Aug 3, 1920.

Serial No. 287,572.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective view of one of the drill holding members.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary face view of the cabinet with certain of the drill holding members shown in open position.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken on line 6-6 of Fig. 5, with two of the drill holding members shown in open position.

The rectangular frame comprises outer vertical members 1 and 2, intermediate vertical members 3 and 4, lower member 5 and upper member 6, the same being closed by the back member 7 and faced with the vertical strips 8, 9, 10 and 11, and lower facing strip 12 and upper facing strip 13.

Embedded in the vertical members 1, 2, 3 and 4 and held in position by the facing strips 8, 9, 10 and 11 are the rods 14 on which are hingedly connected the rectangularly shaped horizontally inclined downwardly opening doors 15 to which in turn are secured the sheet metal plates 16, the doors being provided with the pull handles 17 by which they may be opened.

In the construction as shown, the doors 15 rest upon the rods 14, and the sheet metal plates 16 are embedded in the grooves 18 formed in the outer face of the doors, the plates passing under the rods and around the lower edge 19 of the doors and projecting inwardly and upwardly and forming trough shaped holders for the drills, the plates also forming the hinge connection of the doors to the rods.

The doors 15 are purposely hinged at the lower outer corner 20 thereof so that the weight of the doors as well as the sheet metal plates 16 will by gravity retain the doors in closed position when closed, and the weight of the doors and plates will overhang the rods and hold the doors in open position when opened.

It will be understood that the weight of the drills resting in the trough shaped metal plates 16 will aid in holding the doors 15 closed, and when the doors are opened the drills will automatically by gravity roll from the trough shaped metal plates over the doors into the hand of the one who opens the door.

In operation the drills are placed in the cabinet, and when a certain size of drill is required, the numerals 21 will indicate at a glance which door to open to secure it, the

door is opened and the drill discharged, the door remaining open to indicate that the drill is in use, or at least not in the cabinet. The door must be closed when the drill is returned in order to retain the drill.

The drill cabinet has proven to be a great time saver in connection with drilling Ina chines and the like where ClI'lllS areemployed.

What is claimed'as new, and desired to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a drill cabinet, a flat rectangular frame, one flat side of said frame closed, the opposite flat side of said frame provided with downwardly opening horizontally disposed doors, each of said doors provided with a sheet metal plate facing the bottom edge thereof and extending upwardly on the outer face of the door and embedded in a groove in the outer face of the door, said metal plates extending inwardlyfrom each of said doors and forming a trough shaped retainer for a drill, and a rod at the lower outer corner of each door and within said metal plate and forming the hinge of the door. 7

FRANK M. PEARMAN. 

